He had the idea to create extended car pedals so he could have a better and more independent daily life.

The project was developed to facilitate disabled people’s lives, and was presented at Fórum Mundial de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica, in 2009.

The device works through an interconnected electronic system, which uses an infra red emitter and a receptor fixated in the glasses, and it makes possible to click with a blink of an eye.

For the cursor movement, it was developed a system of sensors, located in particular spots on the glasses. They capture the head tilt, for the left, and for the right, and send the signal to the mouse.

Combined with a compassion for the visually impaired, such as her mother’s friend who was blind from birth, she wanted to share her passion with the most inclusive audience possible. The student put together an abstract drip art tool that includes a thick paint for the blind and visually impaired to be able to enjoy and examine their own works of art.

Floyd was born with an articulation disorder. By the time he reached third grade, he said his impediment became more noticeable and affected his ability to be understood by people. From there, he began going to speech therapy and continued through high school. Although speech therapy was beneficial, he was still bullied and made fun of.

The student decided to create this device after he lost his daughter Eleanore to sudden infant death syndrome, when she was a month old. At the time, there was no device on the market that could be detecting a baby’s vital signals. That’s what inspired Peter, who adapted a guitar sensor to build the Ella’s Monitor, which was launched in 2012.

The tiny sensor is worn by a baby and detects all vital signs. The sensor will link to a cell phone or computer as an app and alert parents when the baby is not OK.

Tankchair, equipped with heavy duty treads that allow for movement across all terrains is designed for outdoor activities, while Speedster is designed for urban and indoor use, enabling the user to get off the sidewalk and back onto the road.

It all started when Brad and his family went on a trip to the mountainside. Liz’s wheelchair wasn’t built to go through a mountainside with other people.

Raghav saw a documentary about the daily lives of the blind and visually impaired, and was immediately inspired by it. "There's an old device here that needed an upgrade," Raghav says, "and I thought I could make that better."

Raghav sought out Steve Mahan, blind, and CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Center For The Blind (SCVCFTB) a year ago after throwing together his first prototype of SmartWalk to have blind people testing it.

The app consists of a game for individuals with Autism and other special needs to recognize emotions to help improve social skills by recognizing the emotion, the cause behind the emotion and speedup recognition. It has great geography fun as well as the user takes train trips around the world.

Focused on a passenger train traveling to destinations around the world, the game requires players to match a specified emotion with the correct picture of the passenger's facial expression.

Shameera started wearing behind the ear hearing aids soon after, but she was always destroying or losing them, so they weren’t on for very long.

“The minute we turned our back, Shameera would rip the hearing aids off her ears. We spent hours looking for them. We turned to the audiologists at our local hearing clinic, for a solution. They were aware of a few products and we tried a couple of them. But for one reason or another, they really just didn't do the job”, Mark said.

As a caregiver, her father realized he had to come up with a solution to fix this problem.

It all started when the engineer decided to create a country-wide competition – The Super App Idea Competition - encouraging children to use their creativity to come up with an idea for a mobile app, a mobile app that he could develop and the profits from which the competition winners could share. That’s when he met Olivia, and learned more about her condition.

Andrew uses a computer software program to communicate with his family and friends. The program scans through a variety of words, pictures and letters, and Andrew must operate a switch with his head to indicate the words he wants to say. But because of a movement disorder that accompanies his rare form of the disease, he often hits the switch unintentionally and his messages become garbled. What Gary did was create a light-activated switch that reduces the incidental contact with the switch.

The project shares photos and videos from Milagro's first five years of life. And how her parents encouraged physically challenging activities to stimulate her development.

Tiscareno-Sato decided to offer the DVD as a resource to help families raise blind children and in hopes of changing the perception of blindness.

Joe noticed how good his son was at playing Angry Birds, so he started to think about developing a computer application to help children with autism learn to communicate. Hill's startup company launched Aeir Talk for the Apple iPad tablet on November 30 2011.

"I just really wanted something that was affordable and was also quality work," he said. "There were a lot of apps that did a lot of different things, but I really wanted a one-stop shop for people who had kids with autism."

To remove, simply strike the rear part of the sole on any hard surface and the momentum of your foot pops them open allowing your foot to come right out.

Each pair of Quikiks™ comes with a set of medium-strength securing magnets. Weaker and stronger magnets are also available upon request and are easily swapped out, so that the holding strength can be customized to your abilities. A spring in the hinge keeps the shoes in the open position so they are ready to receive your foot the next time you want to put them on.

The app allows Mia, who cannot walk, talk or control her movements, to point out pictures of food, toys, activities and other day-to-day themes on the iPhone screen using her eyes. Mia’s parents can upload their own photos so that the system can be easily customized to Mia's needs and their daughter can feature in the images to aid familiarity.

The couple can also use recordings of their voices to announce what has been selected on screen to complete the personal touch.

The app traces its roots to Kaneko's experience taking his son Masaki, then 5, to the dentist for a cavity. Children with developmental disorders like autism are often sensitive to stimuli such as noises, and Masaki panicked amidst the many sounds and devices of the dentist's office. He had to have his body wrapped in a special net for safety, and his mouth was then opened using a tool. Masaki sobbed, and had trouble breathing when something that he vomited got caught in his throat.

James’ molds were hot, uncomfortable, and expensive, and so his father, who is a senior lecturer and the head of Auckland University’s transportation engineering group decided to create new splints.

By collaborating with a pediatric neurologist Dr. Rakesh Patel, and Professor Xun Xu, a professor and lecturer on 3D printing, Douglas was able to develop smart splints that are cheaper and more confortable. The splints help realign a child’s feet and promote easier movement. Its production costs $50.

It all started when Susan returned to graduate school after the birth of her first child, and she experienced first-hand the pumping problems that so many new moms encounter.

Pumping in public can be a stressful experience. That’s why the duo developed the Gala Pump, a “hands-free, concealable, quiet and effective breast pump that women can use in the presence of others”. “We believe that this pump will free women from the current confines of pumping,” say its inventors. “Allowing them to pump any time and anywhere.”

The Readassist aid is rectangular in shape and forces the students to focus only on the line they are reading from.

Shantanu is passionate about electronics, and when he saw some blind students, he decided to use his love for electronics to help them, and so he designed a smart stick to help the blind people navigate.

"I saw blind students at school having a hard time in moving around. They could not detect obstacles and would bump into them," said the young inventor. He hopes his invention will help fill this gap.